Heirs of the Greek catastrophe : the social life of Asia minor refugees in Piraeus

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Heirs of the Greek catastrophe : the social life of Asia minor refugees in Piraeus

Renée Hirschon ; with a foreword by Michael Herzfeld

Berghahn Books, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-271) and index

"First published in 1989 by Oxford University Press, New York"--t.p. verso

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The war between Greece and Turkey ended in 1922 in what Greeks call the Asia Minor catastrophe, a disaster greater than the fall of Constantinople in 1453, for it marked the end of Hellenism in the ancient heartland of Asia Minor. In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne ratified the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey, involving the movement of some 1.5 million persons. Well over one million Greek refugees entered the Greek state in two years, increasing its population by about a quarter. Given the far-reaching consequences for both Greece and Turkey, surprisingly few studies exist of the numerous people so drastically affected by this uprooting. Over half a century later a large section of the urban refugee population in Greece still claimed a separate Asia Minor identity, despite sharing with other Greeks a common culture, religion, and language. Based on the author's long-term fieldwork, this ethnography of Kokkinia - an urban quarter in Piraeus - reveals how its inhabitants' sense of separate identity was constructed, an aspect of continuity with their well-defined identity as an Orthodox Christian minority in the Ottoman Empire. This rare study of an urban refugee group fifty years after settlement provides new insights into the phenomenon of ethnicity both structural and cultural. In detailed analysis of values, symbolic dimensions, and of social organization the book illustrates the strength and efficacy of cultural values in transcending material deprivation. The reprint of this study in paperback is particularly timely, marking as it does the 75th anniversary of this major event in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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List of Plates List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Chapter 1. Refugees for Fifty Years Chapter 2. The Ottoman Past in the Refugee Present Chapter 3. Identity and Hardship: The Urban Refugee Experience Chapter 4. Yerania: Place and Space Chapter 5. Earning a Living Chapter 6. The House, the Dowry, and Marriage: Continuity and Adaptation Chapter 7. The House: Symbolic and Social Worlds Chapter 8. Neighbourhood Life: Integration and Ambiguity Chapter 9. Religious Life and Death in Yerania Chapter 10. The Triumph of Life Appendices Appendix I: Conflict in Close Quarters: The Legal Tangle Appendix II: Results of Household Survey in Yerania, 1972 Appendix III: Categories of Occupation in Yerania, 1972 Notes References Index

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